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April 9

How to retrieve phone contacts from google drive or gmail. ?

Hello there, I had the motherboard of android phone (Huawei Y 5II) replaced by customer care technician. Before replacing, technician helped me to moved all files to google drive. I have recovered all files except contacts. I have tried to retrieve them from gmail and google drive with no results. The only thing I retrieved a excel file named, "contacts.csv". But when I opened the file there are no contacts except random words like, Name, Initials, name suffix and some other words. How can I get back contacts? Would you be open minded to help me out ? Thanks in advance. --103.231.162.134 (talk) 18:17, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Did you import the csv into Excel? A csv file is just comma separated variables, so it should load into any text editor or word processor. If you cannot read it in a text editor then it is probably corrupt unless it was saved in some special format designed to load back into the phone. Your technician might know. Dbfirs 19:13, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

• Yes, it's a csv excel file. When I open it, it only shows headlines such as, name, title, family name etc. But no number at all. How can I get back my numbers ?--103.231.162.134 (talk) 12:30, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

Try looking at it with a text editor,and if the numbers are not there, then they were not saved. Dbfirs 15:02, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

• • No number at all. What to do?--103.231.162.134 (talk) 12:00, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

April 11

Closing CMD prompt while a process is running

Hello, I was just running a DISM.exe scan on Windows 8, which is done via command prompt. The percentage progress etc is shown in the cmd window. I accidentally closed the cmd window. Does that stop the process, or if not, how do I check the process’s progress? Thanks Amisom (talk) 20:48, 11 April 2019 (UTC)

Yes, when you run a program within a command prompt, note how the command prompt's title bar changes to show the name of the exe running within it. This is the same as running a dos-like exe separately and having it flash up a command prompt box then disappear as it finishes. With command prompt though, that same exe is running within the cmd.exe interpreter, but still has a path to the rest of the system. So if you close cmd.exe with a program running inside it, that program gets closed too. RegistryKey^(RegEdit) 04:44, 12 April 2019 (UTC)z

I am not sure that DISM.exe is a dos-like program. It is win64 application (in 64-bit system) and it does not run within cmd. Ruslik_Zero 20:34, 12 April 2019 (UTC)

You should be able to see whether DISM is still running using Task Manager. Mitch Ames (talk) 08:25, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

April 14

lighttpd on windows

Hi, I'm trying to change html in templates but the changes have no effect when I restart lighttpd service. Maybe restarting the svc is not sufficient? Maybe the actual physical path configured is not the one I think it is? Thanks 2A01:E35:2E45:30A0:68C1:B0C3:F4ED:906A (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 14:14, 14 April 2019 (UTC)

April 15

How do you read a text file from elsewhere in a Python program?

How do you read a text file from elsewhere in a Python program? I'm talking about a Python program being in one file and having a text file from elsewhere be imported into this file. Futurist110 (talk) 00:42, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

If you are just talking about reading a text file for data into a python program, you can use the open() function. See here. 74.88.70.115 (talk) 01:12, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

OK, but I meant to retrieve a file from elsewhere and put it into a program in a different file. Is open() really the only thing that one has to do? Futurist110 (talk) 03:55, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

Oh, you mean to insert the contents of the file as part of the program, like #include in a C program? I don't know how to do it in Python, so that's the limit of my contribution. --76.69.46.228 (talk) 04:24, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

So we need to distinguish a few things here. If you have a Python program foo.py and you wish to use bar.txt as data, such as simply printing the file, you can do something like

mytext = open("./bar.txt").read()

print (mytext)

Here, mytext is a string containing the entire contents of bar.txt

However, I think what you're asking is this: In program foo.py you want to be able to import the contents of another script bar.py, which is a Python file containing some functions, :::etc. In this case, you can simply import whatever you want. For example, if bar.py contains a function baz(), and both scripts are in the same directory, you can have in foo.py :::something like this:

import baz from bar

baz()

Just to cover all the bases, if you want to execute the entire contents of bar.txt in your script, then you would write something like:

myscript = open("./bar.txt").read()

exec(myscript)

There is another function eval() which has different properties, see here for all the details :::between the two. 69.122.136.2 (talk) 04:32, 15 April 2019 (UTC)